Beautiful Freedom

I have been reading a book called Crazy Love by Frances Chan and it has challenged me a lot these past few weeks to the point I had to share this... "O God, I have tasted Thy goodness, and it has both satisfied me and made me thirsty for more. I am painfully conscious of my need for further grace. I am ashamed of my lack of desire. O God, the Triune God, I want to want Thee; I long to be filled with longing; I thirst to be made more thirsty still. Show me Thy glory I pray Thee, so that I may know Thee indeed. Begin in mercy a new work of love within me. Say to my soul, "Rise up my love, my fair one, and come away." Then give me grace to rise and follow Thee up from this misty lowland where I have wandered so long." I have found that there is such freedom in love. "As long as we are pursuing Him, we are satisfied in Him. It is when we stop actively loving Him that we find ourselves restless and gravitating toward other means of fulfillment." When we pur...

The crazy work days, the full time school schedule, the ministry events, Bible study, etc. all will fall into place when I am in the proper place with the Lord. I have found that life makes sense when everything else is dropped first and the Lord is made the center. He helps pick up what else is left to be done that day as I follow in His steps with His vision for my day! I have begun to realize that everything points to my view of God. When I do not have the proper view of God everything else is seen only through my own eyes and I am trying to figure out everything on my own which leads only to confusion and frustration. Jeremiah 29:11-14 is something that has really stood out to me lately regarding this very thing. We are all to familiar with Jeremiah 29:11, but there is a process in which we are to go through in order to get to that place of knowing those plans God has for us..."if you seek me you will find me when you seek me with all of your heart." He promises that when...